Dress-skirt.



No, 874,551. PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

s. L. WALLIS.

DRESS SKIRT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 7. 1906.

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UNITED STATES SAMUEL L. WALLIS, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

DRESS-SKIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed August 7. 1906- Serial No. 329-611.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL L. WALLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dress Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the opening at the.

top of the skirt; and the object thereof is to provide means whereby the underskirts of the wearer are prevented from being seen in case the usual parts of the skirt at said opening should gap and also to do away with the necessity for using theordinary placket fastening. I accomplish this object by the device described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which: I

Figure l.shows a portion of a dress skirt provided with my improved protector. Fig. 2.is a detail of the protector detached from the skirt and partly broken away for clearness of illustration.

In the drawings 3 is the dress skirt, at the top of which is the ordinary band 4, the end 4 of which overlaps and fastens to the other end of the band by any of the well known fastening devices. This end of the band and the part of the dress skirt attached thereto will be termed the overlapping side of the placket, and the other side of the placket will be termed the under side of the placket. To the under side of the skirt at the placket opening is secured my placket protector 5 which consists of a pocket which is preferably semi-circular in shape as best shown in Fig. 2. This protector is preferably a little longer than the opening and it is stitched to the skirt along the straight edge 5 thereof as shown in Fig 1.

In the outer or free edge 5 of the protector is a light wire 6 preferably resilient which is bent as at 7 and extends upwardly along the straight edge 5 of the protector where it is joined to an eye 8 which is preferably stitched to the dress band at this point. The Wire 6 after forming the eye 8 continues a short distance beyond the straight edge 5 and the end is bent to form an eye 9 through which the stitching runs to hold the wire firmly to the band at this point. By means I of the wire in the edge thereof the placket protector will always be held extended beneath the overlapping portion of the skirt at the placket. The outer surface of 'the placket protector may be covered with the same material as the dress skirt so that should the overlapping portion gap at all the underskirts would not be seen as the placket protector would present the same appearance as the other portions of the skirt. This protector projects far enough beneath the overlapping portion to prevent any possible gap thereof from disclosing the underskirts. In Fig. 1 I have shown placket fastenings 10 and 11 but with my improved placket protector these fastenings may be omitted.

The wire could be run in .a hem or otherwise secured to the edge of the goods comprising the protector. I

Having described my invention what I claim is 1. A placket protector, comprising a piece of cloth of substantially semi-circular shape; and a stiffening wire secured in the circular edge thereof and projecting beyond the straight edge at the upper portion.

2. A placket protector, comprising a piece of cloth substantially semi-circular provided with a stiffening wire secured to the edges thereof, said cloth being adapted to be secured to the garment at one side of the placket and pass across the same.

3. A placket protector, comprising a semicircular pocket having a stiffening wire secured to the circular edge thereof, the cloth forming the pocket being secured to the garment at one side of the placket and being adapted to pass across the same and beneath that portion of the garment on the other side of said opening.

4. A placket protector, comprising a pocket having a stifiening wire in one side thereof, the cloth forming the pocket being secured to the garment at one side of the placket and being adapted to pass across the same and beneath that portion of the garment on the other side of said opening.

5. A placket protector, comprising a pocket having a stiffening wire in theedge thereof and adapted to be secured to the In Witness that I claim the foregoing I skirt band at the placket, the cloth forming have hereunto subscribed my name this 1st the pocket being secured to the garment at day of August, 1906.

one side of the placket and being adapted to SAMUEL L. WALLIS. 5 pass across the same and beneath that por- Witnesses:

tion of the garment on the other side of said EDMUND A. STRAUsE,

opening. IRVIN H. BARKELEW. 

